Mining Incidents

ERM Rock Metal/Non-Metal

FORTUNA CA, Humboldt County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405368

ERM Rock has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2001
Latest incident
May 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
54
citations
7
significant & substantial
$5,105
proposed penalties
$5,105
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
51
inspections on record
556
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 556 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

ERM Rock has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
54 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-06-19.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 144 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 50 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 67 0 0 0.0
Show 92 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 61 1 0 16393.4
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 448 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 254 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 508 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 164 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 280 1 0 3571.4
2021 Q3 180 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 155 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 454 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 314 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 513 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 627 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 92 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 84 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 647 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 176 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 152 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q1 90 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 168 2 1 11904.8
2017 Q2 213 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 193 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 148 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 452 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 652 2 0 3067.5
2015 Q4 537 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 416 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 579 2 0 3454.2
2015 Q1 627 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 513 3 0 5848.0
2014 Q3 561 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 487 2 0 4106.8
2014 Q1 484 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 500 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 487 1 0 2053.4
2013 Q2 483 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 514 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 384 1 0 2604.2
2012 Q3 557 1 0 1795.3
2012 Q2 637 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 586 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 418 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 459 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 422 4 1 9478.7
2011 Q1 625 3 0 4800.0
2010 Q4 336 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 494 1 1 2024.3
2010 Q2 503 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 502 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 484 3 1 6198.3
2009 Q3 1,016 4 2 3937.0
2009 Q2 496 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 343 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 497 2 0 4024.1
2008 Q3 0 4 1
2008 Q2 683 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 443 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 496 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 215 2 0 9302.3
2007 Q2 225 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 645 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 185 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 185 4 0 21621.6
2006 Q2 185 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 185 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 185 6 0 32432.4
2005 Q3 185 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 246 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 185 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 964 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 264 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 208 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 550 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 949 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,657 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,672 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 954 2 0 2096.4
2002 Q4 471 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,892 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 994 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 1,292 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,210 2 0 475.1
2001 Q2 5,714 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,851 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,365 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,108 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,518 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,977 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2001 · 1 incident

May 29, 2001 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
The Pacific Lumber Company · Struck against stationary object

WHILE CLEANING OUT THE SCREENS, HE WAS ON HIS STOMACH AND CRAWLING, WHEN HIS BACK HIT A RUBBER ROLL. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AND HIS BACK PAIN GOT WO5RSE. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR THE NEXT MORNING.

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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.